Fayrer, Colonel Frank Wall, John Davy (one of the first Europeans to research on the venom of Sri Lankan snakes and to test the efficacy of snakestone in traditional treatment) to Sir James Emerson ...
Lauren Child brings a light touch to big issues, Elle McNicoll explores autism – and a secret society is at work in Paris’s ...
Piu DasGupta’s debut, Secrets of the Snakestone (Nosy Crow), by contrast, doesn’t need much hocus-pocus to be spellbinding – just vivid storytelling and an excellent cover illustration by ...